Dosing Pumps

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dragam21

Discussion Starter · Apr 29, 2014

Was thinking about getting dosing pumps to go along with my Apex to do my daily ferts, some mornings are just so hectic and by doing this it would just make my morning a little easier! How many of you use them and do you trust them. I guess what I am asking is when you do it manually you know how much is going in, but with the automated process you have no control and have to trust the equipment! Please share your thoughts.

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exv152

· #2 · Apr 29, 2014 (Edited)

I've never tried dosing pumps so I can't comment, but my lights come on around 4pm, and I dose the tanks shorter after that. Manual dosing gives me more flexibility to adjust the dose based on what I see. Just my personal preference.

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Mirkinator

· #3 · Apr 29, 2014

Ive seen users on reddit that have them. Seems any of the salt water ones would work. Love this guys tank btw and you can see his dosers:

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exv152

· #4 · Apr 29, 2014

@ Mirkinator - killer tank btw

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Craigthor

· #5 · Apr 29, 2014

I previously dosed using a set of auto dosers on my large tank, made it easy when I wasn't around much due to work travel to have consistency though dosing by hand was much more fun. Didn't take much time either.

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Mirkinator

· #6 · Apr 29, 2014

exv152 said:
@ Mirkinator - killer tank btw

Thanks! Found it online all by myself! Hehe, wish it was mine though, but yeah he's got some good tanks

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ua hua

· #7 · Apr 30, 2014

Mirkinator said:
Thanks! Found it online all by myself! Hehe, wish it was mine though, but yeah he's got some good tanks

That's GDominy's tank and you can see all about it here as he is a member here.

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/showthread.php?t=224490

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rdmustang1

· #8 · Apr 30, 2014

I've been using Tom's aqualifters with my Apex on my 190 for the past 5 months but so far they've worked great. The Apex allows great tune-ability. I run mine for 70 seconds twice a day.

I just added a set to my 40b yesterday using a cheap digital timer. It runs for 1 minute every day.

They're $10-$15 on Amazon and you'll need at least 2.

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